The document summarizes the political developments in South Asia under British rule from the late Mughal period to the establishment of the Khilafat movement. It describes the weakening of the Mughal empire and establishment of direct British rule after 1857. It then discusses the educational and political reforms initiated by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and religious institutions like Darul Uloom Deoband. It outlines the formation of the Indian National Congress and All India Muslim League in response to the changing political situation. Finally, it provides details about the Khilafat movement launched in 1919 to protect the Ottoman Caliphate.
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1. WEAK MUGHALS
Bahadur Shah I (1707–1712)
Jahandar Shah (1712–1713)
Farrukh Siyar (1713–1719)
Rafi ud Darajat (1719)
Rafi ud Daulah (1719)
Nikusiyar (1719)
Muhammad Shah (first rule, 1719–1720)
Muhammad Ibrahim (1720)
Muhammad Shah (restored) (1720–1748)
Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1748–1754)
Alamgir II (1754–1759)
Shah Jahan III (1760)
Shah Alam II (1759–1806)
Akbar Shah II (1806–1837)
Bahadur Shah II (1837–1857)
2. Nonetheless, for a few decades afterward the
British East India Company continued to rule
the areas under its control as the nominal
servants of the emperor and in his name.
After the Revolt of 1857, even these courtesies
were disposed. The rebels declared their
allegiance to Shah Alam's descendant, Bahadur
Shah II which led to a protracted Siege of Delhi,
after which the victorious British abolished the
institution altogether with transfer of authority
to the British crown.
The last Mughal emperor was deposed and exiled
to Burma, where he died in 1862.
3. EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS
Sir Syed Ahmed khan
Biography:
He was born on 17 October, 1817 in Delhi.
He received education in Holy Quran, Arabic,
Persian, History, Mathematics and Medicine.
After completing his education, he entered the
British East India Company’s civil service.
He appointed as a Sub-Judge in 1841.
4. When war of independence 1857 broke
out, Sir Syed saved many British officer
and their families.
In 1877, he appointed as a member of Imperial
Council.
He served for Muslim nation after war of
independence.
He died on March 27, 1898.
5. POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE SUB-
CONTINENT:
British came in South Asia as a trader but due to
favorable condition, they captured one state after
another.
After the failure of war of Independence (1857)
Muslim rule in South Asia was ended and
subcontinent came under the direct rule of
British crown.
6. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS
SERVICES:
Books
Causes of Indian mutiny(1857):
The loyal Muhammadans of India:
Book titled : Risala-Ehkam-e-Toam-e-Ahl-e-Kitab
Book titled: Tehqiq-e-lafz-e-Nasara
Book titled : Tabein-ul-Kalam (a commentary of
Bible)
7. As a member of the British Indian Imperial
legislative council, he took up the Indian
problem.
He demanded that the number of Muslim seats
in Viceroy’s council should be fixed.
He demanded for separate electorate.
He protected the Urdu language during
Urdu-Hindi controversy (1867).
10. He revived the Two Nation Theory.
8. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES:
Establishment of Schools at Murad Abad (1859)
and Ghazipur (1862).
Establishment of the Scientific Society(1864).
Establishment of the Muhammadan Anglo
Oriental High School(1875) and College
(1877).
Establishment of the Muhammadan
Educational Conference
(1886).
9. ROLE OF ALI GURAH MOVEMENT
FOR ACHIEVING PAKISTAN:
Establishment of All India Muslim league
(1906)
(Muslims Political Party in British India)
Provided leaderships during the Pakistan
movement.
Its students supported the Quaid-e-Azam in the
Pakistan movement.
Protected the Muslim identity.
10. DAR-UL-ULOOM DEOBAND
Dar-ul-uloom Deoband was founded by Mulvi
Zulfiqar Ali, Mulvi Fuzl-ur-Rehman and
Mulana Muhammad Qasim Nanautvi
in 1867.
This institution was established to provide
religious education to the
Muslims of South Asia.
It was started from one student but soon became
the second largest Islamic university of the world
after Al-Azhar.
11. OBJECTIVES:
To protect the Muslim identity.
To save religious works.
To protect Muslim culture.
To provide religious scholars.
Revival of Two-Nation Theory.
12. ROLE IN THE AWAKENING OF
MUSLIMS OF SOUTH ASIA.
Its student spread Islam in South Asia and
other parts of the world.
It protected the faiths of the Muslims of South
Asia.
It provided religious scholars to all parts of
South Asia.
It saved us from British conspiracy
against our faiths.
One of its head Mulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi openly
supported Muslim league.
13. ROLE DURING PAKISTAN
MOVEMENT
Its students supported the Quaid-e-Azam in
the Pakistan movement.
It provided prominent leaders of Pakistan
movement e.g. Hakeem-ul-ummat Mulana
Ashraf Ali Thanvi , Allama Shabir Ahmed
Usmani, Mufti Muhammad Shafi , Anwer Shah
Kashmiri and Maulana Zafar Ahmed.
Quaid-e-Azam declared
Allama Shabir Ahmed
Usmani as his right hand.
14. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
DURING THE BRITISH RULE
The year 1857 brought decline to the Muslim rule
in India.
Muslims and Hindus participated in the War of
Independence but the British held only Muslims
responsible for the rebellion.
The Muslims were persecuted ruthlessly
and left at the mercy of time.
The post war era was disastrous for the
Muslims.
Their efforts for revival of the self-
identity and political positioning in
the Indian society enabled them to
face any challenge in the future.
15. ESTABLISHMENT OF ALL
INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
1885:
In 1885 Indian National Congress was
established to provide a political platform by a
British civil servant A. O. Hume.
Sir Syed advised the Muslim to remain out of the
Congress.
Formation of the Congress was a method to
incorporate the Muslims in Hinduism.
It popularized the agitational politics that
Muslims could not afford because they were still
recovering the past gaps.
18. PARTITION OF BENGAL: 1905
United Bengal's area covered 189,000 sq. miles
with 80 million populations.
A Lt. Governor had problems in looking after the
eastern areas.
Mainly Muslim suffered because of the rotten
administration by the British.
In 1905, Lord Curzon decided to partition.
East Bengal became incidentally a
Muslim majority province.
West Bengal was a Hindu majority
province.
20. Muslims were very happy on the partition, as this
had enabled them to promote their life conditions.
It was rightly an opportunity for compensation.
The Muslim community supported it strongly but
Hindus retaliated furiously saying it the division of
motherland.
The Congress joined the anti-partition
movement.
They started widespread agitation,
violence, and boycott of foreign goods.
The main reason of Hindu protest was that they
had loosened grip over the eastern parts.
21. THE SIMLA DEPUTATION 1906
In fact Simla Deputation was in line with a kind of thinking that they
had certain interests and they must stand up to protect their rights .
The Simla Deputation of 1906 was the first systematic attempt on the
part of the Muslims to present their demands, to the British government
and to seek their acceptance.
The Simla deputation comprised 35 Muslims from all over India. It was
a galaxy of Muslims leaders from all the provinces and the most
representative Muslim delegation.
This delegation was led by Sir Agha Khan and Nawab Mohsin ul Malik
served as a secretary and this delegation met the Viceroy of British
India, lord Minto in Simla.
The delegation emphasized that the Muslims should not be viewed
simply in numerical terms but they should take into account their
historical importance and the kind of contribution the Muslims had
made to British India and keeping in view that importance they should
work towards accommodating their demands.
The delegation emphasized that democratic principle should be
introduced keeping in view the peculiar conditions and circumstances of
India.
22. The diversity, the fact that there different kinds
of people living in India and the fact that the
Muslims consider themselves to be a separate
entity, all these things had to be taken into
account because the India was not a homogenous
amalgamated or monolithic political identity.
It was a political identity comprising diversity,
divergence in view, divergence in outlook and
when you introduce some kind of system then
these realities had to be accommodated.
23. In view of this submission, they
presented some demands:
Representation more than their population because of their
importance.
Separate electorate
Reservations of Muslims seats in government jobs.
Special share in Municipal or district boards, University
senates and syndicates
Muslim representation in Viceroy Executive Council.
Up-gradation of Aligarh. College as a Muslim University .
The Viceroy was sympathetic towards the demands.
It encouraged the Muslims to launch struggle for their
rights parallel to the Indian National Congress but it
required an organized platform.
24. FORMATION OF THE MUSLIM
LEAGUE IN DHAKA:
DECEMBER 30, 1906
Time had come to formally organize the Muslims
after the success of the Simla Deputation.
The Muslim leaders desired to create a
permanent political forum.
After the meeting of the Mohammedan
Educational Conference, the Muslim leaders met
to set up the All India Muslim League.
25. Wiqar-ul-Mulk chaired the
meeting.
Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka
proposed Muslim League
Hakim Ajmal Khan and Maulana
Zafar Ali Khan seconded.
Mulana Muhammad Ali Johar was
presented its constitution in its first session at
Karachi in Dec. 1907.
Agha Khan was formally elected its president
in March 1908 at Aligarh.
27. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
1- Protection and promotion of political rights
and interests of the Muslims.
2- Cooperation with other communities without
prejudice to the above goal.
3- Creating sense of loyalty, among the Muslims,
for the British government.
28. ANNULMENT OF THE PARTITION
ON 12 DECEMBER 1911
The British government annulled the partition to
avoid trouble on the visit of King George V. The
Muslims were disappointed by the government .
38. LUCKNOW PACT. 1916;
In 1916, Quaid-i-Azam was the advocate
of Hindu-Muslim unity.
Due to his efforts, Congress and Muslim
League hold their annual session jointly
at Lucknow.
Both the parties set up committees for
making a scheme for constitutional
changes in consultation with other
political parties.
39. Following were the main points of the
pact:
Separate electorate for Muslim.
1/3 seats for Muslim In the central
legislature.
Reserved seats for Muslim in the Muslim
minority provinces.
Half of the members of the executive council
should be elected Indians.
Provincial legislature would be directly
elected by the people for the five years.
Provincial autonomy.
Right of adjournment motion.
Commissioned ranks of the army for Indians.
Expansion of Provincial Legislative Councils.
40. GAINS FROM MUSLIM POINT-OF-
VIEW:
Separate Electorate
One Third Muslim seats in Central
Legislature.
Unofficial bill, if opposed by three-fourth
members of a community, it will not be
passed.
August 20, 1917 Announcement by British
Government Secretary of State, Montagu
promised for:
Greater association of Indian in all
branches of government.
Responsible government
Induction of Indians in the commissioned
ranks.
41. The historical struggle of the
Muslims confirmed their identity.
They organized their political party
to address the demands.
They also got recognition by the
Hindus as a separate nation.
The British accepted their role in
the political domain.
42. THE KHILAFAT MOVEMENT-
1919
Khilafat is the name of a Muslim institution.
In 1914, Ottoman emperor Sultan Abdul Majid
was Khalifa of Islam.
In this year, First World War was started and at
the end, British and their allied forces defeated
Ottoman Empire.
Muslims of sub-continent organized a movement
to protect the caliphate of Turky.
Indian National Congress also sported the
movement.
It was the last event of Hindu Muslim Unity.
43. Khilafat movement was a religious and political
movement launched by the Muslims of British
India for the retention of the Ottoman Caliphate
and for not handing over the control of Muslim
holy places to non-Muslims.
Turkey sided with Germany in World War 1. As
it began to lose the war, concerns were expressed
in India about the future of Turkey.
It was a peak period from -1919 to 1922 casting
demonstrations, boycott, and other pressure by
the two major communities, the Hindus and the
Muslims.
Being brothers, the Indian Muslims realized
their religious duty to help the Muslim country.
44. It was the extra territorial
attachments based on Islam.
Another factor same to the
first was that the Indian
Muslims considered Ottoman
Caliphate a symbol of unity of
the Muslim world as Ummah.
45. GOALS:
Ottoman Khilafat should be kept intact.
Territorial solidarity of Turkey be preserved.
Control of holy the places should not be given to
non-Muslims.
Dimensions:
The writings of the Muslim intellectuals
provoked the sentiments for the preservation of
Khilafat and retention of the Muslims control of
the holy places. The Muslims journalism played a
vital role to steer the direction of the struggle.
46. Zamindar of Zafar Ali Khan,
Comrade and Hamdard of
Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar,
and AI-Hilal of Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad etc. were the
prominent newspapers and
magazines which performed
their duties to express their
resentment.
The Allies imposed humiliating
terms on vanquished Turkey.
47. PROTESTS IN INDIA:
All India Khilafat Committee was formed at Bombay in
July 1919.
The first Khilafat Conference at Delhi in November 1919
was arranged in which the Congress leaders like Gandhi
and Nehru participated.
In this way, the major political parties joined hands to
assault the injustice with the Muslim community.
These steps were announced:
No participation in victory celebrations.
Boycott of British goods
Non Cooperation with the Government
The second Khilafat Conference (Amritsar) was held in
Dec. 1919.
Maulana Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali joined the
session after being released from prison.
48. NON-COOPERATION:
Return Titles.
Boycott of courts and educational institutions.
Resign from jobs.
Later resign from police and military jobs.
Refusal to pay taxes.
Hijrat Movement 1920-21
The Indian ulama (religious leaders) declared
India 'Darul Harab.' Darul Harab means the
place (country) where Muslims are not allowed to
perform their religious practices. In the said
situation, the Muslims should migrate to the
nearest safe place.
49. END OF THE MOVEMENT
1- Moplah Revolt Malabar Coast, near Kalicut.
There was an increase in violence day by day and
the Chorachori Incident (UP) in February 1922
worsened the situation.
The Congress volunteers set a police station on
fire and 21 policemen were killed.
In 1922 when Khilafat movement was, its climax
Mr.Gandhi called off the cooperation.
Kamal Ataturk also abolished the institution of
Khilafat in Turkey.
It was the sad ending of the movement.
50. DEVELOPMENTS IN TURKEY
In March 1924, Khilafat was abolished.
This caused a widespread resentment among the
Indian Muslims.
They sent delegations to Turkey but failed to
achieve their objectives.
51. OUTCOME
It was re-affirmation of the reality that religion
is a mobilizing force and especially Islam has
mobilization capacity to organize masses.
It was the movement launched on the basis of
extra-territorialism. Later, no such movement
but Pan-Islamic sentiments continued.
Hindu-Muslim unity proved short-lived.
Reactivation of the Muslim League and other
Muslim organizations to restart their activities
as a separate nation was the great outcome.
52. THE SIMON COMMISSION:
The British government sent a commission to
seek the opinion of Indians on the future shape of
constitutional arrangements. It arrived in India
in 1927 and it published the report in 1930. Most
political parties boycotted it. It presented its
report containing several constitutional
proposals:
Federal system of government with strong centre
Two Houses.
Abolition of Dyarchy system in provinces
More powers to provincial governments.
Governor not to interfere in day to day affairs.
Constitutional changes in NWFP
53. THE NEHRU REPORT: 1928
The main objective was to constitute proposals
for the Indian Constitution.
The Congress called All Parties Conference that
appointed a 10-member committee in May 1928
under the Chairmanship of Motilal Nehru and
Secretary ship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
54. Recommendations that threatened Muslim
interests are:
1- Sindh should be separated from Bombay if it
were capable bearing its expenditures.
2- Full provincial status should be given to
N.W.F.P & Baluchistan on certain conditions..
Separate electorate should be replaced by the
joint electorate.
Unitary form of government to be established in
the centre.
Full responsible government at centre.
Hindi should be made official language.
55. JINNAH'S FOURTEEN POINTS: 1929
The Quaid-i-Azam decided to give his own
formula for the constitutional reforms in reply to
the Nehru Report.
Federal system with residuary powers with the
provinces.
Provincial autonomy.
Separate electorate for Muslims.
Sind to be made a separate province.
Constitutional Reforms in NWFP and
Balochistan.
56. One-third representation of Muslims in Central Legislature.
One third Muslim representation in cabinets.
Religious freedom to all.
Muslim representation in govt. jobs.
No changes in the boundaries of the Punjab and Bengal that
would adversely affect Muslim majority.
Effective representation to minorities in the provinces but the
majority should not be reduced to minority
No law will be passed if three-fourth elected members of a
community declare that it is against their interests.
Constitutional safeguards for Islamic culture and
civilization, education, language, personal laws and Muslim
institutions. Government should provide financial assistance.
No constitutional amendment unless all constituent units of
the federation agree to it.
These points reflected the aspirations of every Muslim living
in India.